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The Hermitage
Kurtz is a character in Joseph Conrad's novella 'The Heart of Darkness.' Action takes place in Belgian King Leopold's Horrific Colony, Belgian Congo. Kurtz is a European who felt he was so powerful that he was above the law and could do anything he wanted. He ends up dying.
A native boy announces to Marlowe (sent to find Kurtz), "Mistah Kurtz - he dead", T.S. Eliot uses that line as the opening line in his poem, 'The Hollow Men,' a downer of a poem. The Last lines of that poem are.
We are the Hollow Men
We are the Hollow Men
We are the Hollow Men
This is the way the world ends
Not with a Bang but a Whimper.
Will this be the destiny of the once-great experiment begun in 1776 and finalized in 1787 with The United States Constitution? Will this Great Destiny be Destroyed by a Self-serving man whose entire life is sealed?